Berlin, Apr. 11.
Half a dozen young communists, heavily armed, forced their way in: to the Moabit-Prison to-day and.
rated the writer, Otto Braun,_ who is under arrest on a charge of high treason.
The raiders, with revolvers in their hands, forced the warders to. hold their hands up. One of the latter, who attempted to resist, was, Knocked down with a rubber trun-
The whole of the prison staff, roused by the tumult, rushed to the rescue, but the raiders escaped in 'a motor-ear with Braun, with one exception, who refused to give any information about himself.
Later.
The plot to effect Braun's escape!
alleged to have been hatched by, hhis fiancee, the twenty-year-old th whom he was issiters" room when the gang burst in, overpowered the warders and carried off both Braun and Olga, Braun has been in prison a year' awaiting trinl—Reuter,
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